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Monday, July 11, 2016

Save Our Cozies Readathon

Saturday – July 16th, 2016

I am reposting, but I originally found this on "Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book" Blog. There are several of my favorite cozy mysteries on the cancellation list, and no doubt some of yours. This readathon is our way of influencing the publishers and showing our support to the authors.

Purpose of the Readathon:

Due to mergers among publishing companies, several beloved cozy mystery series have either been cancelled or are in danger of being cancelled. Depending upon an individual author’s contract, he or she may not even be able to self-publish or take the series to a new publisher. The Save Our Cozies Readathon seeks to:

Raise the reading public’s awareness of this issue across a range of social media platforms.

Start Times

We will be starting at Midnight Friday July 15th and run through Midnight Saturday July 16th EDT. For the sake of challenges and hourly activites, we will all start at the same time. Therefore, when it is Midnight July 15th in EDT, it will be 9:00 PM July 15th in Los Angeles, California.

An online readathon is an online 24 hour event that brings together a community of readers and authors to participate in all things cozy. This includes reading, posting frequently on social media, visiting author’s websites, posting reviews, visiting book blogger’s websites, and/or participating in fun challenges/activities. The amount and type of participation is up to the individual.

How do I participate?

The Cozy fans can participate through any or all of the following:

Sign up to participate on this Wordpress website using your online social media home – be it Facebook, Tumblr,Twitter,Goodreads, etc. and your role, author, reader, cheerleader, admin. (you are not limited to using just one social media account, I just want a main one where I can find you).

The starting time of the readathon will be midnight on July 15th EST or 12:01 AM on July 16th as the time zone calculator is set up. Everyone will start at the same time. Use the time zone page to determine when to start for you time zone. This is so everyone will be at the same point at the same time. Participants can join in for any amount of time from 1 hour to all 24.

Every hour there will be an activity of the hour that you can choose to participate in.

When not reading or participating in activities, you can visit participating author’s and/or book blogger’s websites. The lists of participants will appear on the signup page as people join.

Respond to other participants’ posts on social media to encourage them.

Donating prizes for challenges/activities – (can be as simple as bookmarks)

Work admin duties – I hope for us to have a presence on several social media platforms, we already have a Facebook groupthanks to Shelly Toler Franz. I will open a WordPress webpage for handling all sign up and linking needed for the readathon. I will link the web page to a Twitter account. I can also form a Goodreads group. I don’t personally use Tumblr,Booklikes,Librarything, or many others, so if someone uses those platforms I’d appreciate it if they would volunteer to admin there. There will be closing down duties as well. Books or pages read by everyone and participants will need to be tallied. Thank yous will need to go out, etc.

Authors can participate by:

See 1 – 9 above (Authors are fans, too. Right?)

Posting on his or her own webpage.

Hosting challenges or activities.

Setting up interviews with book bloggers to be posted during the challenge

Setting up a Q&A session on Twitter during the readathon. (usually this is done by collecting questions from readers over the couple weeks leading up to the readathon and then tweeting them with answers during the event.)

Donated Prizes

Each hourly event will have a winner and if we have enough prizes there will be other categories to win in as well (most pages read, most books listened to, most activities participated in, etc.)

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I’m a Colorado gal who loves the mountains and low bug population but hates the snow and cold. I have been a book worm from second grade and my first venture into writing stories was fourth grade.
I love pretty much all mysteries and those with a paranormal angle in particular. I look forward to sharing my adventures in reading with you.